This Storymap is part of our wider research project on Learning from Small Cities, and reports on Jalandhar, India.

Jalandhar is a city of more than 800,000 people in the north-western Indian state of Punjab, only 100 kilometers from the international border with Pakistan. Jalandhar is known as a trade and manufacturing hub for sports goods and machinery, and is currently in economic decline. 

The inclusion of Jalandhar into India's 100 Smart City Mission marks a crucial moment in the city's imagination of reconciling its history of emigration with its new identity as sports and healthy city . In this storymap report we present the lessons from Jalandhar through the themes of imagining, governing, and living urban futures.

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